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America is still obsessed with racial segregation
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<blockquote data-quote="RDKirk" data-source="post: 77490466" data-attributes="member: 326155"><p>What you're really doing with "we're all racists" is just trying to get an emotional response out of people. If young people are socialized early to see themselves as part of a group discounting race, then "we're all racist" becomes illogical and certainly irrelevant.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>It's a false notion that to be non-racist means one must be blind to the fact that skin color exists. I can make note of a person's eye color without being an eye color bigot. If someone describes me as an "older black guy with a gray beard and eyeglasses," I'm not going to be any more offended by "black guy" than I would be about "older," "gray beard," or "eyeglasses."</p><p></p><p>I was watching an interview back in the 90s of some prominent white writer who had adopted a black daughter. The white interviewer asked him if he'd ever used "the N-word" in her presence, and he assured her that he had. The interviewer was shocked. The man had to explain, how was he going to teach her how to respond without allowing her to hear the word in a context not intended to harm her?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RDKirk, post: 77490466, member: 326155"] What you're really doing with "we're all racists" is just trying to get an emotional response out of people. If young people are socialized early to see themselves as part of a group discounting race, then "we're all racist" becomes illogical and certainly irrelevant. It's a false notion that to be non-racist means one must be blind to the fact that skin color exists. I can make note of a person's eye color without being an eye color bigot. If someone describes me as an "older black guy with a gray beard and eyeglasses," I'm not going to be any more offended by "black guy" than I would be about "older," "gray beard," or "eyeglasses." I was watching an interview back in the 90s of some prominent white writer who had adopted a black daughter. The white interviewer asked him if he'd ever used "the N-word" in her presence, and he assured her that he had. The interviewer was shocked. The man had to explain, how was he going to teach her how to respond without allowing her to hear the word in a context not intended to harm her? [/QUOTE]
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